Why did so many scientists have their pictures taken with Jeffrey Epstein?
And was Epstein working for Mossad?
Well, it looks like we’re going to talk about Jeffrey Epstein again:
Although Musk appears to be trying to walk things back as of Thursday evening.
A few things I know about Jeffrey Epstein:
This guy I met had once been a high school student interning for an extremely famous lawyer. Epstein would drop by and shoot the breeze with the kid while waiting around to talk to the celebrated lawyer.
He said that for a rich and powerful man, Epstein sure seemed to have a lot of time on his hands.
He compared Epstein to another frequent prominent visitor to the law office, a man who went on to be elected to one of the most important offices in America, but who subsequently had his own sex scandal. That busy bigshot never paid the slightest attention to the interns as individuals.
In contrast, Epstein actually seemed to enjoy long conversations with the 16-year-old fellow. Sometimes, Epstein would even bring up their last conversation and give him thoughtful advice he’d come up with for the kid since they’d last talked.
The back of Epstein’s hands were hairiest the young man had ever seen, perhaps suggesting high testosterone.
As you no doubt know, Epstein’s girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell was the beloved daughter of newspaper baron Robert Maxwell, who was by all accounts a Soviet and Israeli spy. Six former Mossad chiefs attended Maxwell’s funeral in Israel after he plummeted from his yacht.
(I also have a story about when Robert Maxwell tried to cheat me out of One … Million … Dollars! But it doesn’t have anything to do with Epstein, so … for another time…)
The Maxwell connection raised the question of whether Epstein was a Mossad agent.
The fellow thought …
Paywall here.
… not. He had sat in as a notetaker on a meeting involving the famous lawyer, Epstein, and two Mossad agents from Israel. He said that Epstein’s comments didn’t suggest an intimate familiarity with Mossad — “So, you guys do, like, James Bond stuff? That’s so cool!” [Not a direct quote, but words to that effect]. Nor did Epstein seem to pay close attention to Israeli affairs. In the meeting, it became clear he didn’t know who was the current prime minister of Israel. [Or something basic like that.]
A few months later, my source had changed his mind, because the notion that Epstein and (especially) Ghislaine were collecting blackmail info for Israeli intelligence seems pretty plausible. When I recounted his earlier anecdote, he said that Epstein must have been putting on an act to fool him, the note-taker.
Maybe. But I don’t find that all that plausible. Note, that my source didn’t have any inside information suggesting Epstein was a Mossad agent, just the usual surmises that we’ve all come up with.
On a different Epstein topic, why are there so many photos of Epstein with famous scientists?
Epstein was friends with literary agent John Brockman. Now in his 80s, Brockman was a ball of fire in his prime, a more intellectually interesting era back before the Great Awokening dumbed things down. Brockman had started out as a banker, got involved with Andy Warhol’s Factory scene, and became an author’s agent. He specialized in scientists and science writers, and by the first decade of this century, had so many as his clients that he was bringing them together in various public events to generate synergy.
For example, Brockman started the non-profit Edge Foundation. It ran the Edge.org website in which Brockman’s clients would each year give their individual answers to some Big Question. I’d read it over closely each year.
The big event on the Edge Foundation’s calendar was the Billionaire’s Banquet for scientists and tech zillionaires during the TED Talk annual convention. Brockman got Epstein to pay for it, in return for which Epstein (who’d taught high school physics) got to pal around with prominent scientists.
Epstein couldn’t hang intellectually with his heroes, so with his conman’s cunning he developed some pseudo-profound questions to throw at the big brains of the “What is ‘up?’” ilk to get them to say, “Well, that’s actually a very insightful question, Jeffrey.” I’m reminded of this Ali G segment:
Was it all part of a sinister and/or degenerate plot?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
One more rumor I heard recently was that Epstein was actually working for the IRS. But I don’t have any information validating or debunking that.
The reason why I couldn't wrap my mind around the accepted conventional wisdom from so many in our sector that Epstein Island was a Mossad honeypot:
It sounded to me like unnecessary cow buying for those who are already getting the milk for free.
It would have been an understandable effort for the Mossad to run if there was any danger that American politicians were imminently and seriously about to go off the pro-Israel plantation during the peak years of Epstein Island. But there was no such danger.
Note: I think the real reason why Bondi/Kash/Bongino are dragging their feet on the Epstein files is because they've seen them, and know that it's a relative nothingburger, that it was all Epstein's own personal perversions, and Epstein Island was his buying political friends. They're hoping that the yammering goes away, because they don't want to have to release the files and it turns out to be a big embarrassment to the many people who have hyped this up to way more than it is.
I read an article a few years ago that made the argument that he inherited the whole sex party blackmail thing from an earlier iteration of it. I'll try to find it.
I doubt the whole thing was developed according to a plan. The idea that this started with a brainstorming session at Mossad (or CIA) headquarters and became some young go getter's projects and got some funding and then they somehow found the perfect pimp and set him up...it isn't how business works.
More likely Epstein was four or sic standard deviations above the mean for charisma and gregariousness. We've all met these guys. Super friendly. Has 10,000 friends. Knows everyone. I've met at least two of them. One of them has to have three birthday parties every year to fit everyone (and I didn't even make the list even though we still keep in touch after I moved away)
The other, a more recent friend, was recently placed on the rotating guest list for a very high profile billionaire. Why? Well I assume because he knows a lot of interesting people to bring to dinner to talk about interesting things. Billionaires get bored like the rest of us. There are a lot of smart people on this comment section. How often do you find yourself wishing you had more smart curious people around to talk to?
Billionaires just have more available solutions to that problem.
When did Epstein add the young women to it? My guess is he transitioned to untraditional pimp slowly. At first he would have just been the guy who knows everyone throwing parties for rich guys. It's not that difficult for men like that to find attractive young women who want to attend such parties. After a few cycles of success, the 'recruitment' gets more aggressive. Soon you are a pimp.
Further speculation: I don't know that he needed to blackmail anyone, certainly not at first. If you enjoy the guys sex and interesting conversation mixers, why not 'invest' a few million with the guy. Keeps things friendly. Keeps mouths shut maybe.
After some time, word gets back to 'intelligence'. I would not be so cocky about it being Mossad. It's more likely that it started with CIA but could easily be both. It would be child play for them to get Epstein on board and on the payroll.
That's my guess.